March 5, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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RNGs in Kerberos v4
nSession keys were generated from a PRNG seeded with the XOR of the following:
nTime-of-day in seconds since 1/1/1970
nProcess ID of the Kerberos server process
nCumulative count of session keys generated
nFractional part of time-of-day seconds
nHostid of the machine running the server